June 1st Events:193 – Assassination of Roman Emperor Didius Julianus is .987 – Hugh Capet is elected King of France.1204 – King Philip Augustus of France conquers Rouen.1215 – Beijing, then under the control of the Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Beijing.1252 – Alfonso X is elected King of Castile & León.1495 – First known batch of scotch whisky is recorded by Friar John Cor.1533 – Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen of England.1660 – Mary Dyer is hanged for defying a law banning Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.1679 – Battle of Drumclog - Scottish Covenanters defeat John Graham of Claverhouse.1779 – Court-martial of Benedict Arnold, a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, for crime of malfeasance.1792 – Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state of the United States.1794 – French Revolutionary Wars - The battle of the Glorious First of June is the first naval engagement between Britain & France in these wars.1796 – Tennessee is admitted as the 16th state of the United States.1812 – War of 1812 - U.S. President James Madison requests Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom.1815 – Napoleon swears fidelity to the Constitution of France.1831 – North Magnetic Pole is discovered by James Clark Ross.1855 – William Walker, an American adventurer, conquers Nicaragua.1857 – Publishing of Charles Baudelaire's Fleurs du mal.1862 – Battle of Seven Pines (or the Battle of Fair Oaks) ends inconclusively (American Civil War, Peninsula Campaign).1868 – Treaty of Bosque Redondo - the signing allows the Navajos to return to their lands in Arizona & New Mexico.1869 – Electric voting machine is successfully patented by Thomas Edison.1879 – Napoleon Eugene, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War.1890 – Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine is used for the first time to count census returns by the United States Census Bureau.1910 – Robert Falcon Scott's South Pole expedition leaves England.1918 – Battle for Belleau Wood – Allied Forces under John J. Pershing & James Harbord engage Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince (World War I, Western Front).1920 – Adolfo de la Huerta becomes President of Mexico.1921 – Tulsa Race Riot - civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma.1922 – Royal Ulster Constabulary is founded.1935 – First U.K. driving tests are introduced.1939 – Maiden flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 Würger (D-OPZE) fighter aeroplane1940 – The first congress of the Leninist Communist Youth League Karelo-Finnish SSR.1940 – The Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corporation goes out of business.1941 – Battle of Crete ends as Crete capitulates to Germany (World War II).1941 – The Farhud - pogrom of Iraqi Jews, takes place in Baghdad.1942 – Warsaw paper Liberty Brigade publishes the first news of the concentration camps (World War II).1943 – British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s.1946 – Ion Antonescu, "Conducator" (leader) of Romania during World War 2, is executed.1958 – Charles de Gaulle comes out of retirement to lead France by decree for 6 months.1963 – Madaraka Day - Kenya gains internal self-rule.1974 – Flixborough disaster - chemical plant explosion.1974 – First publication of the Heimlich maneuver (for rescuing choking victims), was published on this day in the journal Emergency Medicine.1978 – Patent Cooperation Treaty - first international applications are filed.1979 – First black-led government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 90 years takes power.1980 – Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting.1990 – Treaty to end chemical weapon production - signed by George H. W. Bush & Mikhail Gorbachev.1993 – Dobrinja mortar attack - when Serb mortar shells are fired at a soccer game in Dobrinja, west of Sarajevo.2001 – Nepalese royal massacre - Crown Prince Dipendra shoots & kills his father & mother (King Birendra of Nepal & Queen Aiswarya) together with other family members.2001 – Dolphinarium massacre - Hamas suicide bomber kills 21 at a disco in Tel Aviv.2003 – People's Republic of China begins filling the reservoir behind the Three Gorges Dam.2007 – Jack Kevorkian is released from prison after serving eight years.2009 – Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil.2009 – General Motors files for chapter 11 bankruptcy.